Our School

 

The Creation Of Our Logo

 

The Rockingham Lakes, Lake Cooloongup and Lake Walyungup, form the centre-piece of Rockingham Lakes Regional Park, a vast network of environmentally significant lands that stretch across the City of Rockingham.

The two lakes are an extremely valuable natural asset, providing unique opportunities for recreation and leisure, education and scientific research, and conservation of flora and fauna. They are home to distinctive Thrombolites, rock like structures formed by micro-organisms over 300 million years ago, and play host to migratory birds that make an annual journey from as far away as Siberia.

Surrounding the lakes are at least 13 different vegetation associations, ranging from impressive tall Tuart forest to the rare sedgelands of the holocene dune swales. The Rockingham Lakes are truly an asset that the community can cherish and enjoy for many generations ahead.

The logo incorporates the following:

• The circles indicate the lakes after which we have been named.
• The flower is a plant that is distinctive to these lakes. It is Anthocercis Littorea and is prominent around the lake fringes. It has distinctive star shaped yellow flowers and green-purple berries. It tends to colonise after fire
• The Thrombolites are distinctive to the Rockingham Lakes. The only other place they occur (in the Perth Region) is at Lake Clifton.

Thanks goes to:

Mr Stephen King, CALM officer who is responsible for the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park, who provided this information and has also provided drawings and photos of flora, fauna and natural features of the park.

Mr David Peake is the graphic artist who used this information to design our school logo.